Re: succinct awk code to check for paired parantheses?

[david kerns]

I submit the following test cases that fail the proposed awk solutions:

#1
   if ((a>b) && (b>c) && // )
     ((c>d)) {
      a = 0;
   }

#2
   if ) 5 ( b = 0;

I stand by my original post, this is a job for lex